Segregationist Arrested in Black Nightclub

Arkansas Racist Seized
As Drunk in Negro Bar
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug.
28 (AP) - Robert J. Norwood
head of the Arkansas States
Right Council and one of
those arrested during a segre-
gationist march on Central
High School Aug. 12, was
picked up by the police today
in a Negro night club.
Mr. Norwood was charged
with drunkenness and was re-
leased on a $15.50 bond.
He was charged with loiter-
ing afte he had been arrested
during the clash between
marchers and police near the
integrated school on opening
day. That case is scheduled
for hearing Sept. 17.
police Lieut. carl E. Jack-
son said he ahd been called to
the Negro night club at about
2 A.M. by a Negro policeman
who reported a "drunk white
man" in the place Lieutenant
Jackson said he had found
Mr. Norwood sitting at the
bar with a group of Negroes.
Source: New York Times

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Arkansas Racist Seized
As Drunk in Negro Bar
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug.
28 (AP) - Robert J. Norwood
head of the Arkansas States
Right Council and one of
those arrested during a segre-
gationist march on Central
High School Aug. 12, was
picked up by the police today
in a Negro night club.
Mr. Norwood was charged
with drunkenness and was re-
leased on a $15.50 bond.
He was charged with loiter-
ing afte he had been arrested
during the clash between
marchers and police near the
integrated school on opening
day. That case is scheduled
for hearing Sept. 17.
police Lieut. carl E. Jack-
son said he ahd been called to
the Negro night club at about
2 A.M. by a Negro policeman
who reported a "drunk white
man" in the place Lieutenant
Jackson said he had found
Mr. Norwood sitting at the
bar with a group of Negroes.
Source: New York Times

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Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas